Seismic Twitch

I can read a book for actual pleasure?

I can sleep in and not feel guilty because I’m supposed to be up studying/doing homework?

I start the new job tomorrow?

This is just a statement of what has happened to us today.

Today, while I was at school, completing the investment in education I’d made starting in 2004, Bran and Boy went to our branch of Affinity Credit Union here in Saskatoon. We made a decision as a family to cash in Boy’s bonds, reinvest three of them and Boy would contribute one of the bonds toward family expenses as well as Boy related expenses such as braces, a new bed, clothes and shoes.

So, because the bonds were still in the name of his Oma and despite him being named as as co-owner, they found it necessary to send them to Calgary where their only bond centre is. The bonds will be reissued under Boy’s name and be returned here. This process is going to take a couple of weeks. Is it inconvenient? You bet. However, it is possible that it would have happened regardless of whatever bank we went to. We don’t know that.

Because of this delay, Bran requested a short term loan to cover current expenses that include rent, utilities and groceries that would be repaid when the bonds were cashed and reinvested for him. They knew that this was going to be the process and therefore knew that they would get the money back in less than a month. However, because Bran and I have no credit record (we haven’t started paying back student loans and have no credit cards, etc.) and that Boy cannot provide collateral (because he’s a minor) they turned us down.

Now I can understand this business decision. However, the fact that I have banked with this particular branch for over 23 years and already repaid a student loan makes no difference. The last I heard credit unions were supposed to value their more close community and customer relationships, at least that’s what they advertise…it’s all about being local. During that time I have paid exorbitant service fees because of my commitment to my community and to the old tenets that credit unions were founded upon – investment in people.

So when the bonds come back with Boy’s name on them, we are going to take them and walk out of the credit union and go across the street to RBC (a branch that was extremely helpful and bent over backwards when Bran’s mother died to make the entire painful process of closing accounts, cancelling credit cards, etc so much easier than it could’ve been) to open up chequing accounts for Bran and I, for Boy as well as investment accounts for Boy with the other three of the savings bonds.

Today Affinity Credit Union managed to create an enormous amount of ill will with the Dykewife family. We will maintain the account at the credit union only so long as the cheques to our landlord are used (we gave them a year’s worth of post dated cheques) which will be done in August then we shall close all accounts with Affinity Credit Union. They managed, in one fell swoop, to offend me, Bran and Boy severing a long term business relationship that could have been quite beneficial to them in the future.

I figure that if they’re not willing to invest in us, why should I be willing to invest in them? I don’t care if they consider it sound business practise, last I heard, creating ill will wasn’t a part of that.

As of today I am officially done my Baccalaureate of Arts Honours.

Dykewife, B.A. Hon.

Has a certain ring, right? I didn’t sacrifice peaches and ice. I’m so tired that had I had any alcohol I would’ve not been able to make it home and done a face plant on the table.

I got 80% on my essay and according to the prof who has already marked many of the papers, I did well. So that means I passed and that’s all that is important to me right now.

Now…after Scooby Doo and then bed.

Sorry, Mebdh. I’m not able to make it. Bran might be there though.

Ta-Ra

Tomorrow is the final final exam. I still haven’t studied for it. I’m so tired and so tired of school.

After the exam I shall be going to Louis’s, having lunch and a few (or a few more) peach belinis because they’re nectar of the Goddess and she demands sweet, peachy drinks be sacrificed.

After that I go home and then tomorrow evening, I hope to go to an art show that Mebdh (pronounced Maive – gotta love those Irish names that sound nothing like they’re spelt) is having.

Bran has diabetes. That’s what the doctor wanted to talk to him about when the blood tests came back last week. He doesn’t have to do the insulin thing. With diet, exercise and medications for other related issues it should resolve itself. This means that the bikes will come out and we have to find a way of tying them up outside so that they don’t get stolen but are handy enough for me to access my bike to ride to and from work.

Hey, did you see?? I GOT THE JOB!!!!

That’s about it. I’m going to go to bed and get some rest then get up about 4 and review stuff with the exam questions as reference. Hopefully I won’t fuck up too badly and will pass the class. All I want to do is pass. That’s all I need.

Speaking of classes, I just checked to see if my final marks for Research Design and Endangered Languages were in. They were.

Research Design – 82%
Endangered Languages – 80%

I just need to pass. That’s all. Then I can sleep the sleep of the non-obligated. I’ll have one day’s “holiday” and then I start work.

Yippee!

I got this one from Uncle Zoloft

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According to an English to Polish online translator, Powitanie is hello.

I have no idea if that’s right, but thanks to someone who linked to one of my archive entries that was mostly about the male penis (as opposed to the female penis) that featured the song from The Meaning of Life and the Gay Men Play Safe listing of different names that men have come up with to call their “member”, I have received an enormous number of hits from Poland. I don’t know quite what they were looking for or what the forum entries are about (since I neither read nor speak Polish).

I got hits from:
Grodzisk Wielkopolski, Poznan (multiple hits)
Sopot, Gdansk (multiple hits)
Gdynia, Gdansk (multiple hits)
Cracow, Malopolskie (multiple hits)
Kunice, Gorzow
Warsaw, Warszawa (multiple hits)
Koszalin, Zachodniopomorskie
Krakw, Malopolskie
Sztum, Elblag
Zabki, Warszawa
Szczecin, Zachodniopomorskie
Lodz, Lodzkie (multiple hits)
Bytom, Katowice
Zory, Katowice
Swarzedz, Poznan
Wolbrom, Katowice
Lublin, Lubelskie (multiple hits)
Poznan, Wielkopolskie (multiple hits)
Kobylnica, Slupsk
Koscian, Leszno
Rzeszw, Podkarpackie
Brodnica, Torun
Marta, Zamosc
Skierniewice
Bytom, Katowice
Zory, Katowice
Legionowo, Warszawa
Gorzw, Bielsko
Polska, Wloclawek
Poniatowa, Lublin

That’s a lot of Poles who needed to read about penises. Amazing. Of course,they might never see this front page, but I figured it can’t hurt to be welcoming and say hello.

You are Platform Sandals

Funky and urban You’ve got a cutting edge style that everyone envies A little bit downtown, a little bit euro, and whole lot of sexy!

Yeah, I nearly peed myself laughing at this result.

Yes, I did.

I GOT THE JOB!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I start next Thursday at 8 am. Then on Friday I’ll work from 12-8. On Saturday and Sunday I’ll work my regular shift of 4-midnight. I get 4 days off then on Friday I work at 8 am again so that the Director can know that I’m doing things the way they should be done.

I GOT THE JOB!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thank you to everyone who thought good thoughts, who prayed, who wished me well and crossed their sundry bits and body parts! That heartened me to no end.

I GOT THE JOB!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ok. Back to coding some stuff that isn’t working for me on Blogger and is pissing me off.

Please ignore the previous entry. That’s the coding that is pissing me off and I’m working on getting it to work. I’ll let you know when that works out.

Ok, the previous post is readable, but for the life of me I can’t figure out why my colour coding isn’t working. Blogger keeps changing my coding, driving me nuts and telling me it can’t accept the html that I’ve put in. Blarg!

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123,031 People

People who died on October 15, 1960 (the exact day you were born):
Clara Kimball Young, American actress

Unusual Deaths in 1960:

• Baritone Leonard Warren collapsed on the stage of the New York metropolitan opera of a major stroke during a performance of La Forza del Destino. According to legend, the last line he sang was “morir? tremenda cosa.” (“To die? A tremendous thing.”) However, witnesses say he was just past that aria and his actual last line was “gioia, o gioia!” (Joy, oh joy!)

• In The Nedelin disaster, over 100 Soviet missile technicians and officials died when a switch was turned on unintentionally igniting the rocket, including Red Army Marshal Nedelin who was seated in a deck chair just 40 meters away overseeing launch preparations. The events were filmed by automatic cameras.

Natural disasters in 1960

• 1960 Agadir earthquake
• Great Chilean Earthquake

People who died on October 15 (various years)

• 2005 Matti Wuori, Finnish politician
• 2005 Jason Collier, American basketball player
• 2003 Ben Metcalfe, Canadian environmental activist
• 2003 Bertram N. Brockhouse, Canadian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 2001 Zhang Xueliang, Chinese ruler of Manchuria
• 2000 Konrad Emil Bloch, German-born biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• 1995 Marco Campos, Brazilian racing driver
• 1994 Sarah Kofman, French philosopher1
• 1988 Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji, English composer and pianist
• 1981 Philip Fotheringham-Parker, British racing driver
• 1980 Apostolos Nikolaidis, Greek footballer and volleyball player
• 1980 Mikhail Lavrentyev, Russian physicist and mathematician
• 1976 Carlo Gambino, American gangster
• 1964 Cole Porter, American composer
• 1963 Horton Smith, American golfer
• 1959 Lipót Fejér, Hungarian mathematician
• 1948 Edythe Chapman, American actress
• 1946 Hermann Göring, German air force commander (suicide)
• 1945 Pierre Laval, Prime Minister of Vichy France (executed)
• 1934 Raymond Poincaré, French statesman
• 1930 Herbert Henry Dow, American chemical industrialist
• 1918 Shirdi Sai Baba, Indian guru (b. circa 1838)
• 1917 Mata Hari, Dutch dancer and spy
• 1910 Stanley Ketchel, boxer (murdered)
• 1900 Zdenek Fibich, Czech composer
• 1891 Gilbert Arthur a Beckett, English writer
• 1880 Victorio, Apache leader
• 1837 Ivan Dmitriev, Russian statesman and poet
• 1820 Karl Philipp Fürst zu Schwarzenberg, Austrian field marshal
• 1819 Sergey Vyazmitinov, Russian general and statesman
• 1817 Tadeusz Kosciuszko, Polish and Lithuanian national hero
• 1811 Nathaniel Dance-Holland, English painter
• 1810 Alfred Moore, American judge
• 1788 Samuel Greig, Scottish-Russian admiral
• 1730 Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, sieur de Cadillac, French explorer
• 1715 Humphry Ditton, English mathematician
• 1564 Vesalius, Flemish anatomist
• 1389 Pope Urban VI
• 1326 Walter de Stapledon, English bishop
• 1080 Rudolf of Rheinfeld, Duke of Swabia
• 1002 Otto-Henry, Duke of Burgundy (b. 946)
• 912 Abdullah ibn Muhammad, Emir of Córdoba
• 898 Lambert, Holy Roman Emperor
• 412 Theophilus, Patriarch of Alexandria

As much as I hate using Wikipedia, some of the people didn’t have an official biographical page or even an obituary. So we shall have to suffer the vaguarities of “that” site (I spelled it first as stie – suits it better I think)

¹This is the closest to biographical reference I could find. There are a lot of her writings on the net though.
It took me nearly all afternoon to code this so that there are links to each and every reference.

One Work Meme

Here’s a meme I swiped from Danulai (except for from whom the meme is stolen from)! (right down the the announcement of swiping the meme )

One word answers…

1.Where is your mobile phone? table
2.Your significant other? Bran
3.Your hair? disaster
4.Your father? fogey
5.Your mother? dead
6.Your favorite thing? sleep
7.Your dream last night? exhausting
8.Your favorite drink? water
9.Your dream/goal? masters
10.The room you’re in? messy
11.Your ex? distant
12.Your fear? mail
13.Where do you want to be in 6 years? older
14.Where were you last night? couch
15.What you’re not? studying
16.Muffins? fattening
17.One of your wish list items? house
18.Where you grew up? Saskatchewan
19.The last thing you did? eat
20.What are you wearing? jammies
21.Your TV? on
22.Your pets? fish
23.Your computer? Compaq
24.Your life? quiet
25.Your mood? content
26.Missing someone? no
27.Your car? nonexistant
28.Something you’re not wearing? socks
29.Favorite Store? Michael’s
30.Your summer? working
31.Like someone? yes
32.Your favorite color? blue
33.When is the last time you laughed? tonight
34.Last time you cried? yesterday

And now for something completely different…

I changed my television package yesterday. Instead of having “Book TV” for the Midsommer Murders program on Mondays I’ve opted to have the package that has A&E in it. For some reason we also have another package that has MenTV (for the record, it’s North America’s first channel for men, Spike TV didn’t come until over a year later) and Court TV. I can’t figure out why we have that. We’d cancelled all of them except one for Boy and I. Anyway, Boy’s package has Turner Classic Movies and tonight I recorded Murder on the Orient Express. It was the one that was made in the 1970s with Albert Finney, John Guilgud, Dame Wendy Hiller, Sean Connery, Jacqueline Bisset, Michael York among others. Now we’re watching A Lady Vanishes made in 1938.

I rather like having my old standards back, A&E and TLC. I’m looking forward to tomorrow evening when I record any First 48s that I’ve missed as well as the new program that I can’t remember what the name is but has a 360 in the title.

I made a delicious curry this evening. We didn’t eat until nearly 8 though. That’s one of the problems of waking up late in the afternoon. Supper is always late. At least it was worth waiting for.

That’s about it.

Ta-Ra